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Hi again, and I"m glad to see you. I watch the Weather CHannel a lot, and I love to watch the "icy mountain roads rescue truck" guys in Alberta and along Highway 401, towing big trucks out of ditches after a fast-moving snow storm buries the whole lake shore. And I think you're somewhere near there. I'm fascinated how they figure out how and where to pull in what direction, to get the wheels of the truck back up onto the pavement. They're doing complex physics problems in their heads, just based on empirical knowledge, and many of them never finished high school. And it's always nice to see them succeed in clearing the smashed vehicles and spilled cargo off to let traffic get through. And they're kind of a "family", one guy will help another one who needs a more powerful truck to lift something, and they compete, but only in a friendly way.